EASA Head in the sand stupidity
The idea of the EEC level playing field for aviation is on the face of it a good one but the administration of this is totally out of proportion to the task in question.
We now have aircraft that are much more basic in construction an all modern cars maintained by an administrative system that is designed for the maintenance of large airliners and overseen by a bunch of beauraucrats that can't or won't see that the system that they are setting up is so totally disproportionate that it will kill with red tape the industry that they are charged with overseeing.
It is quite typical of the bureaucrat that they can't see that they will administer them self's out of a job.
The CAA has by overbearing administration had a large part in destroying aircraft construction industry in the UK and now with the help of EASA they have the maintenance industry in the UK in the way they are introducing part M to the UK.
As to turning "missing" an AD into a criminal offence.......... you might as well build another prison for all the licenced engineers in the UK because with the way the AD system works all engineers will miss a minor AD once in a wile.
Still I could look on the bright side at least in prison I will get three meals a day.......... I won't get that if EASA simply drives me out of business!